Yeah, very ASD-ish. The demo is great and I really appreciate the amount of work and polish (as always), but somehow it's kind of similar to the rest of ASD demos (except for stuff like "for the masses" trilogy).

Very stylish and very strange production. Slow paced demo, different from previous ASD demos . Nice picked packs of colors perfectly fits with music. Of course, incredible flow of scenes in ASD demos is legendary, same here.

In my eyes Iconoclast was way better, but still funckin´ big thumb up for you. Respect.

that is ASD how i like em. good music good effects and very progressive transitions. those synced effects together with this nice non techno music were so refreshing to me. thank you. one of the best demos this year. don't know if you're olskool, but you kick ass and give me an oldskool feeling.

Now this is how "those two demos" should have been done :) Still full of rich scenes and inventive transitions, but this time also much more of a sense of direction and coherent design. Also, the music was enjoyable. No more Dream Theater solos ;)

ASD is ahead of their time. Releases like this are setting new standards for PC demos - something very needed.
Fresh and enjoyable music as always, and most of all, brilliant scene transitions (you know I have a soft spot for them). Good use of pixelshaders and good effects.

Every time I see a new ASD prod, I am amazed at how they manage to raise the bar, every time. This is a different style than Planet Risk and Iconoclast, but still is very much ASD and that is a very good thing. Can't wait to see the ASM release! I can't pick out a part of this demo that really stands out over the other - it's all awesome. Love the music, too.

Best music in an asd demo ever, nice looking effects and seamless transitions like always. But you could try to move on from that same old "black background + glowfilter + bright colours + noise layer" -pattern. We have seen that already, many times.

Cranium's soundtrack meets We Cell's particles? The hyper-hypnoglow-LSD-blur visuals are still not my thing. Thumbs up for some nice and good looking ideas like the peeling-thingy, plus the music. Can't see any bars moving though, and we're all still on the same timezone.

Absolutely blows me away. Insanely smooth flow throughout the whole demo and there's so much happening on screen that I don't even know where to look first. :) and it was nice meeting you at Breakpoint, Amusic, although you probably won't remember me anyway. :) In any case, keep up your great work, guys!

Thankfully Axel, Alzheimer hasn't kicked in yet =). I remember our little chat in the tent, thinking that you said you were Axl =).

As for the lyrics in the end.. it goes like this..

A smell in the air
A game never fair
I'm holding the dice and you just move a square
You're facing the wall,
once again when I roll
Not letting the fate to take its toll
Don't you fear my maze,
It's natural to bite your lip and tremble in this fashion
Mesmerize my gaze,
Touch me and surrender to the animal attraction.

And yeah it's me singing.. and since my voice sux, that's why there's a ton of effects on it =PP

Now this is a fine demo, not like the breakpoint piece of shit :)
I still prefer planet risk and iconoclast, but this one has some great moments. I especially liked the we-cell-like effect and the infinite room zoomer.

lol Amusic. I just thought there must have been tons of people at the party coming up to you saying "Are you Amusic? I really dig your compositions".. hehehe.. anyway, nice that you remembered. :) cheers.

dixan, true - i got also several kewlers vibes from this one. :) excellent demo, quality that we've come to expect from asd in a bit more moodier pack (in contrast to iconoclast which was more of a massive effects show). perhaps my favourite asd release so far. keep it up!

zafo, I can't believe I let my voice slip in this one as well. I originally sung this as a guide to help a friend of mine understand what I wanted her to sing. However time ran short.. it's weird that you find my voice good on this.. it's soooo out of tune...

from what i can tell with my crappy radeon9200;
very impressive/unusual lighting efforts and design which seemed different (not as progressive?) as other ASD stuffs..
admittedly i didn't adore the sound for this,
still very streamline and awesome though
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Really beautiful work organized in a effects collection, but with the manner.

The music is a good companion to the demo, and the sitar things are really nice during the particles riot :)
The bad point is the voice which is useless and a bit out of tune for me. But eh, that's not a big deal.
Except the fact a good machine is needed to have it running, this is a very good job.

on the one hand, this was (as usual) totally slick, and contrary to most asd demos i really like the soundtrack here.

on the other hand, this totally failed to touch or move me in any way - and the great flow (again, as usual :) just emphasized to me how it starts somewhere and ends somewhere without actually going anywhere.

Yeah ASD is definitely one of my favorite groups!!
It's a shame though that the jpg files are encrypted or something. I'd have loved to make a desktop background with the animal logos from the beginning of the demo.
Is there any way to get some of the artwork? (Besides screenshots of course)

yeah I doublechecked, there was no running processes that could have used the file, but it still said it was writeprotected. I even downloaded the demo to another directory and ran it and it happend again. but the fuckings is still @ microsoft I belive =)

This must be my favourite asd demo so far. The rolling ribbons were great and the music worked for me this time. The arpeggios at about 0:58 are lovely. I guess I like the pictures in the box (in the style of the one at 1:53 ) part combined with the ribbons, the soundtrack and the fluffy little dots. The flower references are nice too. Maybe just the parts with curved action :)

I don't quite feel that some tunnel of boxes really fits to the sitar stuff (or something like that). Same goes for the font and the "city" at the beginning. I think it would have even more style if you could "sitarize" everything and make it more hippie-electronic :) (I sound like a musician)

Still awesome stuff and I must once again admire the work done to make this flow smoothly from start to end.

Great stuff as usual. The music was very good, my only complaint is at the part with the cubes. During the transition, the effects over the 'old' box stop playing. I know, I know, you would have to render twice as much stuff to make it work like that, but it would be awesome :-)

This is perhaps my favorite pre-2008 ASD demo. It's got all the good ASD traits about it without being as overloaded with mishmash of styles as most of the bigger prods. Excellent fucking soundtrack as well, great job aMUSIC!